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OMB Controller Danny Werfel announced Wednesday
the federal
government avoided paying out $47 billion in
overpayments over the last
three years. This missed President Barack
Obama's goal of reducing
improper payments by $50 billion by the end of
FY2012.

Over the last three years, agencies understood
the problem better, improved how they tracked
the information and used advanced data analysis
tools to lower the governmentwide rate to 4.69
percent from 5.42 percent in 2009. While the
amount of money improperly paid out hit a high
of $125 billion in 2010, Danny Werfel, the
Office of Management and Budget's controller,
expects it to drop for a second consecutive
year, below the $115 billion mark in 2011.

In its second report to the President, the
Government Accountability and Transparency Board
updates progress on several pilots to implement
three broad-based recommendations. DoD and HHS
are reviewing how best to standardize spending
data. OMB is developing a Statement of Spending
to provide more transparency into how agencies
spend their funds.

Agency officials from the Defense Department and
the Office of Personnel Management, along with a
handful of other agencies, cited significant
improvements in both timeliness and accuracy in
the security-clearance program at a Senate
subcommittee. The agencies agreed, however, much
work remained to maintain that progress and to
take on new challenges, such as reciprocity and
reinvestigation.